Nigerian rapper, actor, and activist Folarin Falana, popularly known in music circles as Falz, has taken to social media to knock President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over...
The Lebanese parliament on Thursday elected Army Commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s new president. The development ended a two-year political vacuum and sparked hope for...
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted against a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to introduce a single six-year tenure for the President, State...
The President of Namibia, President Hage Geingob, is facing severe criticism from the country’s citizens after it emerged that he had enlisted his four children among...
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NIGERIANS used to be patient with their leaders until they stopped being patient with them. They used to be enamoured with those in authority until somehow...
Amid politicking on who will be the next president of Nigeria, details have emerged that Nigeria’s next president will be burdened with over N24.7 trillion in...
Election season in Nigeria is an interesting time. It is, expectedly, characterised by heated contestations and conversations that are inherently partisan. It is also often marked...
The embattled president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards reportedly fled the country early Wednesday, slipping away in the middle of the...
PLACEHOLDER is a word that has now found favour and gained currency in Nigeria’s political lexicon. It came in the wake of the recent primaries of...
The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has been forced to flee his official palace after an angry crowd of protesters demonstrating against the unprecedented economic...
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Kingsley Moghalu has lost in his bid to obtain the presidential ticket of the African...
The Presidency said on Tuesday President Muhammadu Buhari would handover to an elected President at the end of his tenure on May 29 next year. The...
South Korea on Monday, swore in conservative politician Yoon Suk-yeol as the country’s new president who made a promise to chart an “audacious” plan to North...
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, has accused 2023 presidential aspirants from the South-East of only...
The chairman of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum, Chief Edwin Clark has renewed calls for a president of South-East extraction in 2023, stressing that...
I am today, with utmost humility formally declaring my intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said that Nigeria can outsmart its current litany of problems if a competent president is elected into power. Governor Bello...
In Nigeria’s politics, the north is indispensable – and it has always been. By the contrivance of kismet, the north has always held all the aces...
The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has not ruled out the possibility of running for President in 2023, but only if the ruling...
A coalition of groups in the South East under the aegies of South East Democratic Civil Society Coalition (SEDSOC) has rejected the endorsement of former Secretary...
Any doubts as to the rumoured presidential ambition of Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the 2023 general elections,...
A massive campaign to have Nigerians vote for former governor of Lagos State, Ahmed Bola Tinubu as president of Nigeria come 2023 has kicked off in...
With various permutations amongst stakeholders on the emergence of the next President in the 2023 elections, the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has stated the importance...
Pastor Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie, better known as Chris Okotie, is the founder of Household of God Church International Ministries. In 1987 after a thrilling career in...
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has spoken about the state of the nation amidst preparations for the upcoming Presidential elections in 2013. IBB...
The police in Haiti have arrested a man of Haitian origin, reportedly a doctor based in Florida, USA, suspected to be the mastermind behind the assassination...
Several parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was on lockdown on Monday, leading to serious traffic congestion as protesters under the aegies #BuhariMustGo took...
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday described the rotational presidency as an outdated system. Bello, who disclosed this to State House correspondents after a...
Israel’s parliament on Wednesday elected former centre-left politician Isaac Herzog as the country’s president. This is largely ceremonial but also meant to promote unity among ethnic...
A bill seeking to set a 30-day time frame to compel a president to appoint ministers upon assumption of office or face impeachment, has passed second...
President Joe Biden has become the first US president to officially acknowledge that the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during World War I was...
Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died from injuries he received on the frontline. Reports out of that country say the army has officially announced the death...
The lawmaker representing Oshodi/Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Jude Idimogu has said the Southeast region is not ready to produce the...
Ironies litter the landscape. Newspapers chose to emphasize the back of the president as he climbed aboard the presidential jet to go for another medical check-up...
President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after President Issoufou Mahamadou of Niger Republic. This is coming hours after President...
Most of us agree that the unity of Nigeria is held by a tenuous thread, and that by the hands of the current administration old scars...
A second round of voting in the inconclusive presidential elections in Niger Republic has been fixed for February 21, after the first round of voting on...
The National Assembly may compel the country’s next president to constitute his cabinet at least 30 days after inauguration or risk impeachment by the parliament. The...
A popular cleric in Nigeria, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has said that he was sure Nigerians “don’t have a president”. Suleman, who is the president of Omega...
Barely two weeks after announcing his intention for the U.S Presidential poll, U.S music artiste and designer, Kanye West has reportedly aborted plans the New York...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has described the leader of Ohanaeze Youth Council Worldwide, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, as an impostor and disowned his group. Isiguzoro and his group had...
After tremendous pressure, the President decided to come out and give a speech to the nation. This was on the back of very expansive rumours that...
The Senate on Thursday passed for second reading, a constitution amendment bill which prescribes Higher National Diploma or its equivalent as the minimum educational qualification requirement...
A bill that will strip the president, his vice, governors and their deputies of immunity in criminal matters have passed second reading in the Senate. The...
The Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Osun State Chapter, Adegboyega Famodun, has declared that it is the turn of the South West to produce...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), on Wednesday said it had won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Code of Conduct...
Leader of Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), Prof Ango Abdullahi, on Sunday, said the presidency, must remain in the north beyond 2023. He noted that critical evaluation...
The Inspector-General of Police, (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday confirmed that Police alongside other security agencies and state governors had been in dialogue with bandits in...
Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, has died, the presidency said in a statement on Thursday. Essebsi, a major player in the country’s transition to democracy...
